"Sudden conversion ... is particularly attractive to the half-baked mind."

-- E. M. Forster

#Mind Quotes #Atheism Quotes #Half Quotes

“Not being able to find meaning can be just as powerful as finding meaning,”
“One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. I was a comic book reader. I read comic books and I just loved them because even in the depths of the ghetto, you just thought, 'heâ€™s coming. I just donâ€™t know when because he always shows up and saves all the good people.â€™ I was maybe in the fourth grade, fifth grade; I was like â€˜Mom you think Supermanâ€™s coming?â€™ and she said â€˜Superman is not real.â€™ She thought I was crying because itâ€™s like Santa Claus is not real. I was crying because there was no one coming with enough power to save us.”

Source : "Waiting for 'Superman'". www.imdb.com. January 22, 2010.
“Every high has an equal, measurable low.”
“We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present”
“There is so much chaos and dysfunction going on with the federal government that Dallas can't wait any longer for federal help.”
“I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.”
“I read, for the first time, of the Carolina Parakeet-a North American parakeet whose green, yellow and reddish-orange plumage appeared vivacious and altogether quite wonderful. As stunning as I found the hawk-chased conures, this bird astounded me even more. That the Carolina Parakeet was extinct simply added to my amazement.”

Source : Christopher Cokinos (2009). “Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds”, p.12, Penguin
“Once they call you a Latin Lover, you're in real trouble. Women expect an Oscar performance in bed.”

You may also like:

D. H. Lawrence
Novelist
Edith Wharton
Novelist
James Joyce
Novelist
Jane Austen
Novelist
Joseph Conrad
Author
Lytton Strachey
Writer
Thomas Hardy
Novelist
Virginia Woolf
Writer
James Ivory
Film director